UK South-East "Mike's a Lady" Gossip Thread (4)

thanks everyone! what a day, sorted the wedding stuff, went to the match! 5-2! crazy game! take away curry then more wedding stuff! beers went out of the window in the end! Waiting to see goals again on MoTD.

Some from today then:

1 suitable for Chris...

michaelgreen78 wrote in post #7802433
Nice, I like the glittery sea...shame about the compression though

Yes, pretty terrible. Any ideas how to improve the quality? I had to make it low quality to get the photo under 150kb. Certainly a smaller photo, anything else?

Great spider pics Mike! They don't look so scary that close

Mstar wrote in post #7802786
Yes, pretty terrible. Any ideas how to improve the quality? I had to make it low quality to get the photo under 150kb. Certainly a smaller photo, anything else?

Hey Mark,
You could try sharing at only 600x400 pixels. Less size, but higher clarity. Just calculated from my shots, which are average 800x533 = 260kb on average

And as it's done by area size, to reduce down to 150kb, at the same Photoshop Save 11 quality, you'd need around 600px length.

Or pay for some hosting like I do.

I think my site is around US$120 every 2 years, for 100Gb bandwidth and 5Gb space. Though I'm using half the space, and bandwidth is generally between 8-16Gb / month. There's better deals out there now, I just happened to get this around 3 years ago, which auto rolled over last year.

I host about 90% of the photos I post on here and use Flickr mainly (I pay for a pro account) and sometimes I use Imageshack for the odd shot which is free and quite good. The joy of hosting elsewhere is that you can go above the 150kb limit when posting here (for example, the spider shots above are about 500kb each - exported from Picasa at 1024px 100% quality).

Im back from the Rollerderby too now, got many more keepers this time.

I might process some tonight...... probably not

michaelgreen78 wrote in post #7802873
I host about 90% of the photos I post on here and use Flickr mainly (I pay for a pro account) and sometimes I use Imageshack for the odd shot which is free and quite good. The joy of hosting elsewhere is that you can go above the 150kb limit when posting here (for example, the spider shots above are about 500kb each - exported from Picasa at 1024px 100% quality).

Thanks that was really handy. Does this mean all your images you host will be in the public domain or can you select your own privacy settings? Your images are a lot clearer than mine- I can see the difference.

Wazza wrote in post #7802815
Great spider pics Mike! They don't look so scary that close

Hey Mark,
You could try sharing at only 600x400 pixels. Less size, but higher clarity. Just calculated from my shots, which are average 800x533 = 260kb on average

And as it's done by area size, to reduce down to 150kb, at the same Photoshop Save 11 quality, you'd need around 600px length.

Or pay for some hosting like I do.

I think my site is around US$120 every 2 years, for 100Gb bandwidth and 5Gb space. Though I'm using half the space, and bandwidth is generally between 8-16Gb / month. There's better deals out there now, I just happened to get this around 3 years ago, which auto rolled over last year.

Thanks warren, really handy also. I think hosting is the way forward, but I would like to set my own privacy settings. Cheers!

nealhumphris wrote in post #7802918
Im back from the Rollerderby too now, got many more keepers this time.

I might process some tonight...... probably not

How many rolerderby HDR's did you get?

Just finished watching Clint Eastwoods Gran Torino.
Absolutely amazing film - definitely reccomended. Quite sad though, but very dark humour throughout

Kaben wrote in post #7803113
How many rolerderby HDR's did you get?

No HDRs today they dont really work to well on girls on skates at 20 mph!

nealhumphris wrote in post #7803194
No HDRs today they dont really work to well on girls on skates at 20 mph!

I know! I was just being facetious

Is anyone else going to see HMS illustrious when it comes into London in 2 weeks time?
I have booked the 7th off work to take shots from Greenwich/Cutty Sark of HMS Illustrious and the organized Helicopter flyover/display.

I was wondering if any of you fancied joining me? I think Adrian is going to come along too.

If its a clear day i might try some city scape shots from the Greenwich observatory too.

Michael I love the photos

Kaben wrote in post #7803229
I know! I was just being facetious

I know, but its fun to get people to explain their sarcasm